Re: git-cherry doesn't detect a "copied" commit

From: Francis Moreau <francis.moro@gmail.com>
Date: Oct 23, 2015, 06:47 UTC
Message-ID: <CAC9WiBgkv+nu1YX+zaxigG9FWppDJ19f7d2gm_7H9wosHSV_Yw@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAC9WiBhM4edBFCYx35xZJB79AZWo49mkO-Pxnb1q4aLDmBufWQ@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 6:32 PM, Francis Moreau <francis.moro@gmail.com> wrote:

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> Hi,
>
> I'm seeing something odd with git-cherry: it doesn't seem to detect
> that a commit has been cherry-picked from master branch.
>
> This happens with the systemd git repository (from github) so it
> should be fairly simple to reproduce.
>
> What I did:
>
> $ git --version
> git version 2.6.0
> $ git checkout -b foo v210
> $ git cherry-pick -x 9ea28c55a2488e6cd4a44ac5786f12b71ad5bc9f
> $ git branch --contains 9ea28c55a2488e6cd4a44ac5786f12b71ad5bc9f
> master
> $ git cherry master HEAD
> + fef60bf34d1b372bea1db2515a8d936386dfc523
>
> so git-cherry tells me that the cherry-picked commit has not
> equivalent in master, which is no the case.
>
> What am I missing ?
>

Could anybody give me a hint even if I'm blind and not seeing my stupid mistake ?

Thanks

-- 
Francis